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Best of 2016: 5 games devs should play, from Square Enix Montreal's Teddy Diefenbach
From a dev perspective, what are the top games of the year? Here's 5 games from 2016 that Square Enix Montreal's Teddy Diefenbach played and thought other game makers should study.
Dec. 23, 2016
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Come to GDC 2017 and hear how Gears of War 4's cutting-edge audio was crafted
At GDC 2017 Microsoft's Nikunj Raghuvanshi and John Tennant will break down Project Triton, which debuted in Gears of War 4 to deliver detailed scene-dependent wave acoustics in games.
Dec. 23, 2016
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Best of 2016: Swery's top 5 games of the year (for devs)
From a dev perspective, what are the top games of the year? Here's 5 games from 2016 that longtime game designer Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro played and thought other game makers should study.
Dec. 22, 2016
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Facebook Game of the Year Awards honor Supercell, Niantic, and Playrix
Social media giant Facebook has celebrated another year in video games by announcing the winners of its annual Game of the Year Awards.
Dec. 22, 2016
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Nintendo digs up original The Legend of Zelda design docs
Nintendo has served up a festive treat by uploading some of the original design documents from The Legend of Zelda, which was released on the NES around 30 years ago.
Dec. 22, 2016
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Game Design Deep Dive: Rethinking adventure games to create empathy
We set out to create an adventure game that had the soul of a '90s LucasArts title but felt a more contemporary. So, we ended up making a point and click, just without the pointing and clicking.
Dec. 22, 2016
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Glu Mobile makes good on its intent to acquire QuizUp dev
Mobile juggernaut Glu has acquired QuizUp developer Plain Vanilla for $1.2 million, just months after investing $7.5 million in the studio.
Dec. 22, 2016
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Watch a Valve engineer explain the making of the Lighthouse VR tracking system
"I actually invented the Lighthouse tracking technology quite early," said Valve's Alan Yates in a recent presentation. "I was very worried it would be almost impossible to implement, so I sat on it."
Dec. 22, 2016
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Owlboy dev on piracy: 'We're very happy people get the chance to play the game'
"When it comes to piracy, we're certainly not cracking down on anything," the Owlboy devs stated today on Reddit. "We're very happy people get the chance to play the game."
Dec. 22, 2016
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Get a job: Telltale Games is hiring a Narrative Designer
Telltale Games is looking for experienced designers to help create interactive action and exploration beats, compelling choices, and narrative branches that reward player investment in San Rafael, CA.
Dec. 22, 2016
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Video: How Naughty Dog did the motion capture for The Last Of Us
At GDC 2015, Naughty Dog's Blake Shelton takes the stage to deliver a great talk about the needs, requirements and thought processes used to design the studio's motion capture pipeline.
Dec. 22, 2016
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What's the best way to teach game design? Find out at GDC 2017!
Marko Suvajdzic is an experienced game design educator and at GDC next year he'll be sharing some critical lessons learned about trying to teach game design in person, or online, or asynchronously.
Dec. 22, 2016